So video games have some damn good music to them. Let's hear them. Old favourites and new wonders welcome.

On my end I have to put in at least ONE song from Hitman: Blood Money. I mean...I know that there were other games before it, but the soundtrack to this really stuck out in my mind. Jesper Kyd & The Budapest Symphony Orchestra.

And secondly, I have to go with a recent favourite of mine, Journey. Which...just beautiful.

Firstly a track from Hope of the states, i absolutely adore this song, it was the only track i liked on this soundtrack, (and this game music thing has made me detour to ebay to get the limited edition ep this song was on, an underrated band i miss)

secondly for the fact that hearing it reminds me of the day it finally arrived after a year long search and i was in bed ill and the next few months were spent trying to finish it on one credit , chapter 4 was as far as i could get

Bastion not winning the original score BAFTA in the year it was nominated is a complete travesty.

What to do next... How about: lesser known Final Fantasy tunes!

Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core has a mix of arrangements of Uematsu's original score for FF7, and some new themes. This is one of the latter...

Final Fantasy 13 is much maligned, and with good reason to be honest, but it still has some interesting music...

This one is interesting. There are two summoner characters in FF9, and their individual themes are designed so they can play together (which I don't remember the game ever actually doing). Nice touch from Uematsu though.

The Bionic Commando reboot was a real underrated gem that suffered from some poor marketing and a lukewarm critical reception upon release. It had a soundtrack composed by Jamie Christopherson, who recently did the soundtrack for MGRR: Revengeance.

Of course, all of Platinum's games have pretty interesting and unique soundtracks.

Rayman fucking Origins. Easily the best and most hardcore game I've played in years.

Super Castlevania IV was the first game whose soundtrack amazed me. Why don't more chiptune artists compose for the SNES chipset?

The Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack is often startlingly good, though I didn't notice until hearing the songs separate from playing the game.

Amon Tobin composed the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory soundtrack. Chaos Theory was the first game I played in which the tempo and arrangement of the music changed dynamically according to the actions (and mistakes) of the player. Haven't cared much for the rest of the series, but in my opinion, Chaos Theory is a classic action-stealth title.